Sir Tim Berners-Lee: 'computers can do whatever you can imagine'

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, calls
for schoolchildren to be exposed to coding to encourage them to "join a
group of people who can do incredible things".

3:25PM GMT 25 Jan 2013

Mr Berners-Lee in an interview at the World Economic Forum spoke of how Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of Reddit and free information activist who committed suicide aged 26 earlier this month, had used his programming skills to change the world.

He went on to call better computer education in school to encourage children to develop programming skils.

"I'm not talking about a course to tell them what buttons to press, " he said.

"When you're told how to programme a computer, you're taking a leap into an area, joining a group of people who do incredible things."